Peterson Barn Guesthouse

The Peterson Barn is a fully furnished 750 sq. ft. guesthouse in southeast Moscow, Idaho, available by the night, week or month. In the tradition of English cruck frames, the Peterson Barn was built by hand in 1997 from curved timbers.  We felled the trees, cut the joinery by hand, and did a barn raising with about a hundred of our closest friends. Many of the timbers are rescued urban hardwoods and each has a story. This structure was never actually a barn. It was constructed as a guest house above a two car garage and greenhouse. It was built by hand using a timber frame technique from England called “cruck” frame, where long curved pieces support a ridge pole.